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(HoModelJ RHOPKI S.

Eyeglass.

No. 235,436. Patented Dec. 14,1880..

WITNBSSEg: IN TOR:

7 7 BY M g ATTORNEYS.

NJETERS, FKOTO-LITilOG RAPl-IER'WASHINGTON. D. C

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS HOPKINS, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

EYEGLASSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 235,436, dated December 14, 1880.

Application filed May 5, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANCIS HOPKINS, of

the city, county, and State of New York,have

.x, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

In the drawings A A represent the frames of the lenses B B. O O are arms that are 7 firmly secured to the studs D D, which project from the inner edges of the frames A A, project forward said arms 0 0 being made to to any desired distance at right angles with the frames of the lenses B B. E is the usual eyeglass-spring, having its ends secured in or upon the outer ends of the arms 0 0, so as to be in a plane parallel, or nearly so, with the planes of said lenses B B.

The location of the spring in ordinary eyeglasses is such that it presses against the nose and tips the glasses forward, thereby disarranging the focus and carrying the lenses too far from the eyes. This objection is avoided by the device herein shown.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- In an eyeglass, the combination, with the frames A A, of the forward-projecting arms 0 O and attached spring E, substantially as herein shown and described.

FRANCIS HOPKINS.

Witnesses:

Mrs. FANNIE E. DAVIDSON, GEo. M. KEEF. 

